Oblivion Remastered hit 4 million players in less than a week, with a big chunk of them buying the game on Steam

First reported by Eurogamer, Bethesda has publicly celebrated over four million players checking out its recently-launched remaster of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Alongside Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8, the remaster has turned an otherwise-quiet April into boom times for RPG fans. Bethesda broke the news by tweeting the following message on X, “The Everything…

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Hexblade might the best 1-level dip in Baldur’s Gate 3, but going the distance with a full 12 levels and their infinite necrotic ghost turrets has me fixing to finally beat the game without multiclassing

Last week, my coworker, news writer Harvey Randall, wrote a 100% correct love letter to taking a single level of Baldur’s Gate 3’s new Hexblade in a multiclass build. Hexblade gets so much at level one⁠—Charisma-based melee attacks, Shield on short rest, Booming Blade, easier critical hits⁠—that almost any melee character could be improved with…

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This upcoming life sim features co-op survival, farming, factory automation, time-travel romance, ghost hunting and mechs, which is probably why it doubled its Kickstarter goal in its first 24 hours

Many games try to stand out by combining ideas from one genre with systemsfrom another, leading to a lot of games on Steam having descriptions that follow the formula “A + B with C elements”. Upcoming survival game Autonomica represents the logical extreme of this approach, with a list of features so long it risks…

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The end of The Long Dark is in sight after over a decade in development, culminating in a fifth and final story episode that is ‘3 to 4 times as big’ as episode 4

The Long Dark has been in development for a long time. Hinterland’s chilly survival game launched into Steam early access way back in 2014, before formally releasing three years later. But the launch in 2017 only represented the completion of the game’s survival mode. The episodic story mode, titled “Wintermute”, has been grinding glacially forward…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, April 26

Our clue for today’s Wordle is just a quick scroll away, ready to help you rearrange an unruly assortment of grey and yellow letters into a neat row of winning greens, or just give your opening line a fantastic start. As always we’ve got some great tips that’ll help at any point in Saturday’s game,…

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A Windows 11 update revealed a 2-decade old bug in GTA: San Andreas that yeets CJ at ‘1.087 quadrillion light years’ into the stratosphere

Game developer and modder Silent, perhaps best-known for the SilentPatches he’s released for various games including Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, has stumbled across (and fixed) a bug that’s been lying dormant for two decades. And while this manifestation was, apparently, triggered by a new build of Windows 11, it’s been there the whole time….

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